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If you’re one of the many users of Pinterest, you might find it interesting that the company recently raised $200 million in funding. By raising $200 million in funding, the company now has a value of $2.5 billion reports AllThingsD citing sources close to the situation. Previously reports and rumors were flying that the company was trying to raise funding, but that funding is now complete.

The funds Pinterest raised came in a funding round led by Valiant Capital Management. Reports also indicate that existing investors in the company also participated in the funding including Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners and FirstMark Capital. Pinterest has officially confirmed the funding with company CEO Ben Silbermann stating that the investment would give the company resources to help it realize its vision.

Pinterest is expected to use its new found $200 million to develop the product further and to accelerate international expansion. Expanding internationally would give the website more reach and greater impact. Pinterest has been growing rapidly and recent Pew Research metrics showed that the website was larger than many people think compared to other social networks.

Pinterest currently has about 50 million monthly unique visitors around the world and employs 100 people. Most people will be familiar with Pinterest, the site allows people to pin photos of their favorite things that can be shared with other users. Businesses like the website because content and tends to have a longer lifespan than content shared via social networks like Facebook.

[via AllThingsD]

Pinterest raises $200 million in funding valuing the company at $2.5 billion is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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If you were worried that Blackberry 10 would be void of quality and big-name apps, you might want to rethink that because it looks like Spotify will be making its way onto Blackberry World in the future. This was confirmed by the folks at N4BB who managed to get an exclusive look and demo of the app, although the downside is that they were not allowed to take any photos, so we will have to wait until it has been released to see how it will look like. According to N4BB, the app is completed and now it’s just up to the developers to release it into Blackberry World. No word on when that will be taking place, but N4BB is speculating that major apps such as Skype, Kindle and Spotify could be released once the Blackberry Z10 hits the US market. As it stands T-Mobile and AT&T are expecting the Z10, with T-Mobile expecting a mid-March launch.

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McLaren Automotive has made some of the most desirable sports cars in the world for a long time. The company has been teasing automotive enthusiasts with little details about its new McLaren P1 for a while now and the company has finally offered the specifications for the vehicle’s powertrain. As you might expect, the car has an enormous amount of power.

The vehicle combines two types of power plants to offer a mix of throttle response, drivability, and top speed. The vehicle has a mid-mounted 3.8-liter twin turbo V8 engine combined with a high-efficiency electric motor giving the vehicle of total power output of 903 bhp and 900Nm of torque. The gasoline engine alone produces 727 BHP and 720Nm of torque.

The electric motor in the vehicle adds 176 BHP and 260Nm of torque instantly to greatly improve the throttle response of the vehicle. That electric motor and the gasoline motor combined for the complete power output. The vehicle also uses some Formula One technology to help increase its straight-line speed and boost power. The car has F1 style DRS (Drag Reduction System) and IPAS (Instant Power Assist System).

All the power goes through a dual-clutch seven-speed gearbox that drives the rear wheels. Upshifts are made even faster using an E-motor that is able to provide instant negative torque at the point of shifting. That allows the engine revs to drop as quickly and efficiently as possible to the required engine speed for the upshift. The electric motor is also designed to provide drag torque to recover energy to the battery that would be lost to braking otherwise. The supercar does have an E mode that allows the vehicle to operate on the electric motor alone with ability to travel 10 km using only battery power.

[via McLaren Automotive]

McLaren announces powertrain specifications for P1 supercar is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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ALBANY, N.Y. — Platinum-selling rapper Ja Rule was set to leave an upstate prison on Thursday after serving most of his two-year sentence for illegal gun possession but head straight into federal custody in a tax case.

The rapper, who had been in protective custody at the Mid-State Correctional Facility because of his celebrity, has some time remaining on a 28-month sentence for tax evasion, correction officials said. His sentences were expected to run concurrently.

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Texas Instruments has announced that it has built its high-end graphing calculator technology into some applications designed to run on the Apple iPad. The company has announced the launch of two new applications including the TI-Nspire App for iPad and the TI-Nspire CAS App for iPad. These apps are specifically designed for the iPad and were refined in collaboration with researchers and classroom teachers.

The apps were designed to meet curriculum needs for students ranging from seventh grade through college. The apps are able to offer all-in-one functionality for performing calculations in proper math notation. The apps also offer graphing and exporting functions, equations and inequalities, and the ability to construct and explore geometric figures.

The apps have a on screen keyboard that can toggle between math notation and QWERTY configurations allowing students to put notes beside equations. The applications also offer dynamically linked multiple representations of problems encouraging students to make personal connections by observing how the equations change as the student interacts with the shapes, graphs, and objects on the tablet screen.

The apps also have the ability to create and save documents and share them using e-mail, iTunes, and other sharing options. The app also takes advantage of the integrated camera of the iPad allowing students to take photos and import them into the app and overlay graphs and equations on those photographs to illustrate math principles using real world examples. The apps are available to download right now from the App Store for $29.99 each. Teachers can get a free one-year license to both apps with the purchase of one of the apps via the App Store.

[via TI]

TI unveils new TI-Nspire iPad applications is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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